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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
You know this is actually one of the hardest things to deal with...you never actually know what is the meds unless you can get off of them...I actually haven't taken an iq test since getting off the meds but I know they decreased my ability to read fiction but not non fiction for some reason..they also changed my interests subtly...what I found fun or not music job whatever. They also enhanced some skills like typing...not sure why...but compared to active psychosis I think they enhanced my memory and stuff. I mean you basically don't know what is you,what is the illness and what is meds until something changes...
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On her new med (thorazine) her mental clairity has improved but still....these symptoms...
And its interesting what you said about reading. All testing shows she cannot read a paragraph and understand it yet she reads large fiction books and loves them so yes, fiction is no problem but non fiction she seems not to understand.
All talents and hobbies are gone too. She can cope for about 5 minutes and then it is too much for her to handle.
I would love to take her off all meds forever if that is what is causing her IQ to go down. I have always been anti med.
But then I remember how she was before. She has been in psychosis literally most of her life with just short periods of being in the 'real world'. I would get rid of all the damn meds but I dont want her to go back to that.
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